Interviews and Features on Indie Blues Artists
HOME PAGE- Dustin Arbuckle HOME PAGE – Matt Woods Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Dustin Arbuckle and Matt Woods Singer and harp blower Dustin Arbuckle was born in Wichita, Kansas on December 25, 1981 and experienced a parallel upbringing with his musician father and singing from a very early age. He also […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Jonathon Reid of Beauwater! Like the infamous North Atlantic fog from which the group was born, Beauwater exists in the grey. Not quite one thing, but no more the other, their brand of Blues laden Rock walks the boundaries between both genres, tip-toeing between themes and […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents An Interview with Alias Smith and Jones! Sal Carolei has played with the Eliza Neals band, The Travis Miller Band and Gabrielle Aparicio in New York and in Florida. He also performed with the late Floyd Lee, (aka Ted Williams), Sal can be heard on recordings for producer Cass Dillon. Sal […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Anne Harris Chicago-based fiddle player and singer-songwriter Anne Harris has been crafting her unique sound for well over a decade, producing five indie studio records and playing countless performances in the US and abroad. Her collaborations, live and in-studio, span a large and diverse group of […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Samantha Martin of Samantha Martin and Delta Sugar! With the worldwide pandemic wrecking utter havoc upon the careers of many musicians, Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar elected to use their time off the road to record, mix and master their latest tour-de-force, the astonishingly powerful, funky […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Trevor B Power Trevor B. Power’s love of music flows from his very roots. Many childhood days and nights were spent in the company of the old turntable in his parents’ New Jersey home. From dramatically composed opera to smooth winding blues, the records he loved […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Early Times of Early Times and the High Rollers Early Times is a Blues Rock street poet, living in a gritty urban landscape spanning New York’s East Side street corners, bodegas, and the project park – populated by characters like Little Hustler, Uptown Charlie, Tijuana Madonna, […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with John Fairhurst John Fairhurst has spent the majority of his life travelling the world and playing music, meeting innumerable characters, collecting stories and drawing influence and inspiration from the varied musical styles and first hand experiences of a life on the road. Hailed by Acoustic […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Dave Thomas Dave’s musical career started early – singing in the local Welsh Baptist Chapel and learning harmonica from the age of seven. Music was alway around the family home – Dave’s mother had ten brothers, most of whom made up a regular male voice choir […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Veronica Lewis Veronica Lewis is an exciting, emerging talent in the Blues & Roots world. A mesmerizing live performer with serious piano chops, soaring vocals, and songs that boogie away your blues. She’s a seasoned pro at 17, rocking the piano and electrifying audiences with music that’s exciting […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Andy Watts Andy Watts Premier Guitarist has performed and recorded with some of the Best Blues Artists in the World, including Grammy Artists, Joe Louis Walker, Kenny Neal, Johnny Winter, Rick Estrin, Bernard Allison. Lucky Peterson, and Eliza Neals among others. His new album, SuperGroove is receiving […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an interview with Skylar Rogers Skylar Rogers was born and raised in some of Chicago’s toughest neighborhoods. She learned at an early age that music brought people together and grew up listening to music her mother (a singer herself) was listening or singing to. This upbringing laid the groundwork, […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Rebecca Downes Rebecca was born and grew up in Wolverhampton in the West Midlands of the United Kingdom. She first started performing live music when aged 13 and as a teenager wrote and performed her own material. Some original recordings still exist – a little […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with Nico De Cock of The Bluesbones Born in 1973, Nico picked up singing at early age when his mother took him to church choir rehearsals. Later on he worked with Tim Janssens in his studio recording a lot of variegated projects. It wasn’t until 2004, at the age […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Lloyd Jones Portland, Oregon roots artist Lloyd Jones has recorded six critically acclaimed albums, toured internationally, and racked up dozens of major awards and accolades. He’s a relentless road dog, hitting festival stages, Delbert’s annual Sandy Beaches Cruises (he’s been a regular on six winter cruises), […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Ally Venable These times are not for the faint of heart. The pandemic might have silenced the music scene, shuttered the live circuit, and divided artists from their fans. But with Heart Of Fire, Texas’s favorite new guitarist, Ally Venable, is coming off the ropes swinging. Defying dark times and rolling […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with Chris Bevington of the Chris Bevington Organization I guess the story begins as I celebrated my 50th birthday and like most people I guess you take stock of things and what you have done and also more importantly what you want to do or try to […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Erin Harpe “When I listen to the blues, it makes me want to cry—it’s a part of me—but before making this album, I felt I was neglecting the acoustic blues woman in me,” award-winning blues artist and educator Erin Harpe shares. Erin proudly acknowledges the acoustic blues […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Joyann Parker JOYANN PARKER believes music helps people carry on through troubled times. With that in mind, the Minneapolis-based singer-songwriter is releasing OUT OF THE DARK (Hopeless Romantic Records) on FEBRUARY 12, 2021, the rootsy, genre-blending sequel to her acclaimed debut release, Hard to Love. “It’s a great time to release the album,” Parker says. “People need music right now.” […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with Paul Joseph Founding member of the band 100 Watt Vipers, that over the span of 2013 to 2018 released 5 albums. The band gained a large indie following worldwide for their stripped down 2 piece heavy garage blues. Paul wrote and produced, as well as […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Johnny Never East coast bluesman John Carleton, (aka Johnny Never) has a mission to deliver pure, unadulterated vintage blues to those who already love the blues as well as those who have never heard it. Whether solo or with accompaniment, Johnny has energized audiences in Northern […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Ghalia Volt Never underestimate the power of a woman with her back to the wall. In March 2020, as Covid blew across the planet, the shutters came down on live venues and recording studios, and the music scene fell suddenly silent, Ghalia Volt faced the same dilemma as every other […]
HOME PAGE Making A Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with Ben Reel ‘The Nashville Calling` is the title of the ninth studio album by Irish artist Ben Reel. Released on 27th March 2020. Produced by Will Kimbrough and Tommy Womack and featuring Garry W Tallent on bass from the legendary E Street Band. The album contains 11 […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene presents an interview with Ben Levin At only 21 years old, Ben Levin is already making his mark as a blues pianist, vocalist, and songwriter. Ben has been nominated for a Blues Music Award and two Blues Blast Magazine Awards. Based in Cincinnati, OH, Ben has been playing 100 shows a year since […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Bob Margolin Boston native Bob Margolin was born in 1949. Inspired by Chuck Berry, he started playing guitar at age 15 and immediately started performing in local rock and blues bands. Margolin was hired by Muddy Waters in 1973. Muddy’s band toured the world and jammed […]
Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Abby Harris Maharaj of Abby Girl and the Real Deal She has a silky voice that has the local and international roots music community buzzing. Her broad range allows her to croon in a high soprano one a song then belt like LaVern Baker and moan down low […]
Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with Sam Davidson! “The island of Ireland has produced many fine guitarists. In the blues rock genre Rory Gallagher, and Gary Moore spring to mind.” Rory’s early career involved forming power rock trio Taste, they were hugely successful during the late sixties/early seventies. After Rory’s departure the […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Tom Beardslee of Red Red Coming from the crossroads of Europe, Red Red (USA/BE) is an unlikely cross-pollination between psychedelia, 70s guitar rock, blues and hip-hop turntablism. Led by an ethnomusicologist and multi-instrumentalist from Ohio, Red Red is formed from the finest musicians from the Belgian roots, […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an interview with Andy Cohen! Andy Cohen grew up in a house with a piano and a lot of Dixieland Jazz records, amplified after a while by a cornet that his dad got him. At about fifteen, he got bitten by the Folk Music bug, and soon […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Alastair Greene As Alastair Greene’s prolific and acclaimed career rounds the corner into a third decade, Greene arrives at a new, yet familiar destination. Following a 2018 live album that celebrated the 20th anniversary of his noteworthy Alastair Greene Band, the singer-songwriter/guitarist returns with an inspired […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with Bob Angell BOB “SnakeShaker” ANGELL started BLUES OUTLET in the spring of 1966. The original idea, as Angell recalls, was to “Take Chuck Berry material and explore it all the way back… through Muddy, Jimmy Reed, Howlin’ Wolf et al…and see just how far back […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Miss Emily! In February of 2020 at the Maple Blues Awards in Toronto, Miss Emily walked away with Female Vocalist of the Year, New Artist of the Year and the Sapphire Canadian Blues Music Video Award. This national recognition hearkened back to her early days of […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Randall Bramblett When singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Randall Bramblett began compiling the songs that would eventually make up his 12th and newest studio album, Pine Needle Fire, it wasn’t with any particular musical or lyrical direction in mind. But viewed through the lens of the dozen tracks on the […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an interview with Layla Zoe! Give Layla Zoe a stage and she’ll show you magic. In a world of choreography and autotune, this is one performer who does it the old-fashioned way, digging deep, summoning a smoke-and-whisky vocal, leaving it all on the stage and sending breathless fans out […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an interview with Dione Taylor According to the Yuchi Indian Tribe there is a powerful legend of the Tanasi River or “Singing River” in Tennessee. Inside the waterway lives a woman who sings songs to protect those who hear her. Inspired by this mythical folklore, Dione Taylor took an […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with Joseph “Mojo” Morganfield Joseph Mojo Morganfield, didn’t start out life as a blues player. Even though you would think that’s the natural path he would take but no. Joseph was very much interested in sports. In fact until recently Joseph’s life was far removed from […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Nico De Cock of The Bluesbones Born in 1973, Nico picked up singing at early age when his mother took him to church choir rehearsals. Later on he worked with Tim Janssens in his studio recording a lot of variegated projects. It wasn’t until 2004, at the age of […]
Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Juliet Hawkins A modern troubadour with footprints in both the soul and rock worlds, singer & songwriter Juliet Hawkins brings her message of hope and self-acceptance in her new EP Lead with Love (2020). From the start of her musical journey in Rockport, Mass., on a path that […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene presents an Interview with Duke Robillard Whether it’s a song, a style, an idiom or an image, Duke Robillard will render it with mastery, power, nuance and an unerring grasp of its essence. Born Michael John Robillard on October 4, 1948, in Woonsocket, R.I., Duke has carved out one of […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Danny Brooks and Lil Miss Deb Danny Brooks ‘Texassippi Soul Man’, now settled in Llano Texas has mixed the best of both Texas and Mississippi and calls it ‘Texassippi’. He grew up on Hank Williams, Solomon Burke, Taj Mahal, John Lee Hooker and the Allman Brothers, Blind Boys of Alabama, and […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with Sari Schorr In 2016, Sari first burst onto the Blues-Rock scene with her critically acclaimed debut album, A Force of Nature, produced by iconic British Blues pioneer Mike Vernon (David Bowie, Eric Clapton, John Mayall, Fleetwood Mac, Peter Green). Now, two years later, Sari is […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Interviews Grainne Duffy Grainne Duffy was born in Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan, Ireland and raised in a family of seven. As a schoolgirl she sang in her local choir and also in a family band with her sisters. The band was bred from their love of music, which Duffy accredits to […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Jack De Keyzer Acclaimed guitarist, singer, song writer, band leader and producer, Jack de Keyzer rarely sits still. For 46 years or roughly a couple million miles , de Keyzer has been hitting the road , air and studio to bring his brand of guitar driven […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Luca Burgalassi Luca Burgalassi: guitarist, composer, singer-songwriter, begins studying music at the age of 6, writing and performing his songs live by the age of 12. He graduated summa cum laude in acoustic guitar at the Lizard Academy of Fiesole (Florence) under the guidance of Giovanni […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview by Gerry Casey with The Southbound Snake Charmers “Proud Mary“, “Bad Moon Rising“, Up Around The Bend” and “Run Through the Jungle” bring to mind one band and that band are California’s Creedence Clearwater Revival. a quartet who despite their West Coast origins jammed grooves of a more southern persuasion, songs […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Katarina Pejak Katarina Pejak is a blues singer, songwriter and piano player and a Ruf Records recording artist. She is best known for her eclectic musical approach – her style lives on the crossroads of American music genres such as blues, soul, folk and jazz. Katarina […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with David Rotundo Toronto blues harpist David Rotundo heard James Cotton perform at the El Mocambo in 1991. “He blew one note on the harmonica that hypnotized me…” The next day, Rotundo went out and bought a harmonica. “…and I’ve been playing the blues ever since.” Obsession […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Barrett Anderson Barrett Anderson started playing the guitar at 13, and shortly thereafter discovered and fell in love with the blues. His first professional experience came at age 15, backing up the legendary Pinetoop Perkins and “Steady Rollin’” Bob Margolin. When he was 16, Anderson joined […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with John Fusco John Fusco and the X-Riders have released their new CD as he returns to his roots as a blues musician John Fusco dropped out of high school at 16 to travel the American south as a blues musician and factory worker. In his early […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with AJ Crawdaddy Angelo J Rossi, aka “AJ Crawdaddy” is an American Guitarist. Born in Palo Alto, California and a long time Bay Area performing artist, AJ is most well known for his work with the popular Marin based pop group, Pablo Cruise which charted multi-platinum albums, […]
